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Home Base => Introductions => Topic started by: klank on May 14, 2009, 09:19:47 PM
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Following the good example of TFL/Floyd, since I too have posted a bit, I should say hello.
Ex. Church surveyor and ardent curry cooker and Sci.Fi. reader, living in East Devon.
Since being "retired early" - back injurys - I have been able to take up this grand hobby of model engineering (previously done RC planes and boats) and indulge a bit with a lathe/mill - always wanted these since schooldays but never had the chance until about 18 months ago. Very much a newbie at this - cannot really contribute much.
Built a Stirling engine that refuses to run (I will beat it one day - much kind help and advice proffered from this forum following my first post), a Stuart 10H (which does) and now struggling to build a Wenceslas boiler plus all the trimmings (Tubal Cain recipe) to power it.
Learned a lot from making tooling for the lathe/mill. Much gleaned also from books by TC, Harold Hall and Stan Bray.
Like Floyd said, a steep learning curve - knowlege and theory being gleaned from books and forums - some (like this), better than others.
Bogstandard, like Floyd - I too must say thanks for always and unfailingly being there for help/advice - seen you on many threads around the net - my wife (very supportive in this hobby, thank goodness) thinks you have "much to answer for" as I have often quoted you and your lovely builds as inspirational.
My other "help" has been Circlip (known to you Boggy? as he calls you) - who turned up here in bucolic Devon, on his way back to Bradford, with a load of old ME mags to "get me going" and a lot of blunt Yorkshire advice (long story). He also seduced me into Skype so I can speak to him at length when in need of "How do I do this?" help.
Anyway, what a gentle, laid back group with so much help and experience freely shared.
Thanks for providing such a forum.
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klank,
Welcome to the collective as we like to call it. :borg:
As has been mentioned before all subjects can be disscussed here, just find the appropriate place and post.
Regards,
Bernd
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Welcome to the collective :borg: klank!
Sci-fi huh? Gonna go :offtopic: I am a huge fan of both sci-fi and fantasy (nerd alert!) Who do you like to read?
Eric
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Welcome aboard the cube
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John has got a lot to answer for, I'm lucky to live very close to John and every time I visit I come back with ideas on how to improve my kit, he did it again last night when he explained how to convert my lathe to take a Myford screw mount chuck I think he must be a carrier of :proj:
Please do join in the advice the ribbing and the fun
Stew
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Big Derbyshire welcome to you, Klank.
This is a crackin` forum. :thumbup:
Enjoy....... Oh! You are doing, already....... :D
David D
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Peter
You never told me you made curry or I would never have let you in the house.. :poke:
Mark
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Welcome aboard klank :thumbup: .............. Oh, your already here :beer:
CC
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Welcome aboard the cube
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Eric
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Thanks all for the kind replies and humour.
Love the Klingon bit.
My wife thinks I am learning Klingon from the internet (I would love to go to a Trekky convention - and just watch the people).
Has anyone done an engineering/modelling translator using Klingon terms? Could be fun.
eg:- "Gaaaa Bollockiae" - a term used when falling over with a pocket sized scriber (un protected point) in your pants' pocket.
So what's wrong with Curry? If it aint got chili in, it aint tasty enough.
I should add that my other great helper and Giver of Wisdom, has been Old Biker Guy (Mark) who has an extraordinary workshop full of beautiful hand made bench tools, and some very interesting rolling iron (two wheeled) on the other side of the Blackdown Hills, near Taunton. He has always helped me following a telephone call for help.
To avoid going off-topic, I've pm'd you Eric.
Stew - My lathe has a bolt-on type chuck mount, but would love to make a backplate with a myford screw so as to add to versatility.
Berndt, Dave, CC, thanks one and all.
Best wishes
Peter
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Got the PM and have replied!
Eric
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Nice Klingon Eric
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Stew
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Wow.... You guys found some odd stuff to say hi with this time! :lol:
Hi Peter :wave: as some of the guys have used unauthorised smiley replacements I'll just say this,
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:mmr: :mmr: :mmr: :mmr: :mmr: :mmr:
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Enjoy!
Ralph :thumbup:
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Welcome Peter,
I am the whipping boy so you can blame me for everything, other people do.
He has always helped me following a telephone call for help
I always advocate, if possible, the use of a mentor, or just a friend with the same machining background. Whether many thousands of miles away, or local, it always helps if you can get someone to share a problem with. Luckily my mentor is local, but I assist people from the other side of the world if needed.
The first bit of this post shows how I got a Myford nose thread instead of D1-4. It is just a matter of taking my normal chuck off, pop the adapter up the MT taper, and instant Myford thread. The only down side is that I can only hold items as long as the depth of chuck as the thru hole is blocked by the adapter.
http://madmodder.net/index.php?topic=422.0
John
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Thankyou John for the link - that is exactly what I am looking for.
I shall discuss it with my "Yorkshire Rabbi" - I've got an MT3 draw-bar, soft end, blank arbour handy (my lathe headstock is MT3 - as is the mill).
Thanks Ralph - maybe not on this thread, but I have oft time wondered what music model engineers listen to when in the shop?
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Thanks Ralph - maybe not on this thread, but I have oft time wondered what music model engineers listen to when in the shop?
Start a thread in the water cooler... Though I am sure many here will have no idea about the bands I will talk about.
Eric